Why a longtime Vim user moved to Spacemacs for Clojure and ClojureScript development, seeking more complete debugging and refactoring tools.

Building terminal Vim on OS X with Homebrew's Python support, including formula changes and a check of the Python interpreter Vim actually uses.

Getting started with Clojure Web development in Vim, including Leiningen project setup and the tools used for a visual analytics application.

Exploring txt2tags as a portable plain-text authoring format for quickly capturing ideas and turning them into structured documents.

Linking plain-text GTD tasks to individual local email messages, using KMail's maildir files to open the relevant message from a task list.

A lightweight Getting Things Done workflow built around TaskPaper's plain-text format, with ways to manage lists on the desktop and the Web.

Using Firefox's It's All Text! extension to edit Web textareas in a desktop editor such as Vim, with UTF-8 support for writing Chinese.

Enabling inverse search in Vim's LaTeX-Suite so a click in the DVI viewer returns to the corresponding place in the TeX source.

Using Vim's TOhtml command to turn source code into syntax-highlighted HTML for Drupal posts, with an integrated editing and publishing workflow.

Replacing the command-line man pager with Vim through ManPageView and a shell wrapper, with a fallback when a manual entry cannot be found.